Living aboard boats is an unconventional lifestyle which few seem to fully comprehend. So with a crazy Vancouver real estate market so out of our league we chose leaky boats over leaky condo-“minimums.”

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Still here...recovering...

I have been trying to sort through and get around to posting pictures about our trip.

Yes, a trip. A REAL VACATION. It was a long time coming. Six years in fact and truly the first real vacation we've ever had.

We've never felt comfortable at leaving before. The timing has always been off and haven't felt that we could leave things in reliable hands so that the whole thing wouldn't fall apart in our absence. Moreover, it was important that someone was around in case somebody did something stupid or if a freak storm or a big fat tug pulling a barg going by too fast wouldn't pull the whole thing apart.

Thankfully we have a Dr. Sean and Karen the first. He rescued Mt. Kleeman when it's lines pulled away in a storm and drifted out into the river. The galley sink on the Bowie clogged up too and he got that working again for a time but then it clogged up again. That was Greig's first order of business when he got home and that's been repaired.

I have been fighting a huge malaise since returning. All I want to do is sleep and that alone is very unusual for me. I slept nine and a half hours last night. My usual sleep need is six to seven hours). I'm hoping it is just a post-travel thing.

I am slowly sorting through the million pictures we took and trying to cull the best ones of the bunch.

Nothing about boats here....

The SHORE FM

About Me

On Waterlogged, you’ll find my five years or so ranting and raving about the ecstasy and agony of a live aboard life on the BC’s West Coast. We had/have several boats and tried to create a communal lifestyle there that completely sucked the life out of us. OK, well moreover me. Maybe if I was a social worker, a gazilionaire with my OWN marina and boats in better shape it all would have worked out better. But life is short and I have now escaped back to land and am bitching less. The fleet has evolved as we strive for simplification and balance.